The Kansas City Deaconess (Kansas City, Mo.), 1928-10-01

VOL. XX. KANSAS CITY, MO., OCTOBER, 1928. No. 10
IF WE BELIVED IN GOD.
If we believed in God, there would be light
Upon our pathway in the darkest night.
If we believed in God, there would be power
To foil the tempter in the sorest hour.
If we believed in God; there would be peace
In this world's warfare, ever to increase.
If we believed in God, there would be joy
Even in tears, that nothing could destroy.
If we believed in God, there would be love
To heal all wounds and lift the world above.
Lord Christ, be near us, that, beholding Thee
We may believe in God and be set free!
--Jessie Wiseman Gibbs.
2 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS
The Kansas City Deaconess
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Woman's Home Missionary society.
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KANSAS CITY, MO., OCTOBER, 1928.
EDITORIAL
FOUNDER'S DAY
We have come to look forward with eagerness to
Founder's Day, the last week in October, as a lime of
happy fellowship at the Kansas City National Training
School, when our friends come to mingle with us and I get better acquainted.
This year the date is October 29th. From eight
till ten o'clock that evening will be Open House at the
Training School, with opportunity to see the buildings
and equipment and to meet the students and dea-conesses.
planned.
A number of interesting features are being
We trust that many of our friends may be able
to be present.
IN LOYALTY AND LOVE
The deep spiritual note so evident in K. C. N. T. S.,
which makes all our hearts rejoice, because it is the
keynote of the kind of success for which its workers I are working and praying, was given expression in a
unique and very impressive service, held Saturday eve-ning,
September 16th. The non-reside- nt faculty and
the members of the Local Board were invited and a
number were present. It brought us all closer together
and nearer to our common Lord.
It was a real treat to have with us, Oct. 17-1- 9, Mrs.
Byron Wilson of Seattle, Washington, the retiring sec-
I retary of the Young People's Department of the W. H.
M. S. At the chapel hour on Thursday morning she
brought a vital "message to our family on Adventuring
and Pioneering.
I Friday morning, Oct. 19, at the chapel service, our I good friend, Mrs. Dan Brummitt, brought us a mes- - I sage out of her heart on the Beautiful Life. It was I good to have her with us-onc- e more.
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CAN YOU HELP OUT?
' The library of the Kansas City National School is
in need of the following issues of the Annual Report of
the Woman's Home Missionary Society. Wc know that
sometimes these arc put away in the home and not
cared for, while with us they arc needed for reference
work. So if you have any one or more of these and
will send them to us they will be greatly appreciated
and will meet a real need: 1905-190- 1906-190- 7 and
1908-190- 9.
The morning of October 9 it was our privilege to I
have the Philadelphia Conference delegation with us I for the chapel hour; also Mrs. C. P. Colegrovc, secre-- I tary of the Bureau for Chinese Work; and Mrs. II. S. I Hollingsworth, secretary of the Western and Northern I Bureau of the Deaconess Department. Messages were I given by Mrs. Seymour Eaton, secretary of the Immi- - I grant Bureau; Miss Hannah Miller, bureau secretary I in the Young People's Department; Mrs. Colegrove and q I Mrs. Hollingsworth. Mrs. K. S. Burnett was introduced I as a friend who helped K. C. N. T. S. out in a time of I unusual financial strain. I
Wednesday morning, October 10, it was our rare I good fortune to have as our chapel speaker Bishop I Francis Wesley Warne, D.D., for so many years iden- - H
tified with the work in India. He read as the morning H
lesson a part of the first chapter of Ephesians. The H
thought which stands out above all else in his message H
is that Christ has an inheritance in us as His followers H
that He is expecting something of us without which H
His inheritance will not be complete. It was a real H
blessing to have the Bishop tarry with us a night and H
a day. H
The Saturday evening prayer service, October 13, H at K. C. N. T. S., was led by Rev. Eli P. Anderson, D.D.,
pastor of Marlborough M. E. Church. Dr. Anderson, H one of God's saints always brings a blessing with him. H
WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITIES
This past year has been a wonderful one. I do not
see how another could possibly be better. The wide-awa- ke
Day Nursery Kindergarten group was a real
challenge. When looking at "Christ and the Doctors,"
Humberto asked, "Is He telling them He is God ?" The
picture of the Ascension caused Cackiko to question,
"Plow she fly?" Gerald stated, when looking at the pic-tu- re
of Jesus in the boat during the storm, "He says
'Please be still, please be still' !"
One surely needs great wisdom to guide little ones,
but it is so interesting and satisfying from day to day.
The afternoon group is larger and half are Jap-anes- e.
They are especially responsive and appre-ciativ- e.
The Sunday group has increased and crowds the
room. Our work is starting very nicely this fall, with
even better attendance than last year.
Marie Hoge, '26, Los Angeles. . j
H THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 3
IN TOUCH WITH MANY FOLK
One of the privileges which come to the students
of the Kansas City National Training School is that of
working with the leaders of Kansas City Methodism in
the many churches of our two cities and in the mis-sions,
settlements and other institutions which offer
such fine opportunity for constructive service.
The appointments for the coming months are as
follows, subject to minor changes as time passes and
needs change: I AGNES AVENUE: LeMardrcd Brushwood, class of
High School Girls; Epworth League; Junior
League or Junior Church, later. Some work in
church office.
ARLINGTON and HIGH OAKS: Myrtle Pylman,
Junior Boys and Girls in Church School ; Interme-diate
League; Pianist for Church School, Church
and Epworth League; Calling; Prayer Meeting.
i BEAUMONT: Madge Sieg, Church School Class of
Young
calling.
Women; Superintendent Junior League;
BROADWAY: Thelma Fields, Cradle Roll: Church
Kindergarten. Leota Kruger, Primary Class of
Boys; Senior League; calling.
CENTRAL, Armourdale: Marie Button, Third Year
Primary Boys and Girls. Electa Schaefer, Senior
Girls; calling.
I CENTRAL AVENUE: Grace Parker, Second Year Primary; Epworth League; calling. Grace Guer-rett- e,
Beginners; Intermediate League.
COUNTRY CLUB: Ruby Owen, Church School and
Epworth League. Elizabeth McKendrick, Third
Year Junior Girls; Sponsor Intermediate League;
attend Epworth League.
H (iKAUU: lcum Kitzmiiior, mgn scnooi uiris; sponsor
Epworth League, calling. Louise Smith, Superin-- B
tendent Junior League; Assistant Superintendent B j-
- Junior Department Church School; Teacher in B Junior Department. I GRAND AVENUE: Caroline Kloeppel, member of B Church Choir; Director of Junior Choir; Assistant B Teacher in Church School. Bernice Whipple, Mis--
B sionary Education in Junior Department Church B School. Catherine Lockard, Church Kindergarten. I INDEPENDENCE AVENUE: Mildred Tremaine, I class of Girls in Church School; other work later.
B Ellen Romig, Church Kindergarten. I INDIANA AVENUE: Rozella Wehrman, Graduating I Junior Class in Church School; other work later. I LINWOOD BOULEVARD: Evelyn. Bloomer, Junior I Girls; Epworth League; calling. Jennette Leh- - I man, Intermediate Department Work; calling. I LONDON HEIGHTS: Intermediate Class in Church
School; Sponsor Intermediate League; Teacher in I Week-Da- y Church School.
I MARLBOROUGH: Naomi Coger, Teacher in Church I School; Epworth League ; calling.
METROPOLITAN AVENUE : Vesta Roberson, Teach-er
in Church School; Epworth League; Junior
League later. Jessie Bowden, Ethel Graves, Fran-ces
Julius, Mabel Zimmerman, attend Epworth
League.
OAKHURST: Helen Rode, Church School and Ep-worth
League. Kathleen Bell, Epworth League;
calling. Margaret Lawson, Beginners in Church
School; calling.
OAKLEY: LaDonna Bogardus, Class of Junior Boys;
calling; Junior League later. Lucile Robinson,
Class in Junior Department; Junior League, and
later, Intermediate League; calling.
PASEO: Alice Hnskins, Director of Pageantry; Class
in Church School; Epworth League; calling. Hat-ti- e
Rand, Class of Boys in Church School; High
School League.
PHOENIX PARK: Fredda Wolfe, Class in Interme-diate
Department Church School; Epworth
League ; calling. Alice Clough, Intermediate Girls ;
Epworth League; calling.
OUAYLE MEMORIAL: Lela Powers. Class in Inter
mediate Department Church School ; Organize In- - I termediate League; Direct Junior Choir. Marien
Holbert, Class in Junior Department Church I School; Epworth League; Junior Choir; calling. I
QUINDARO: Lillian Koehler, Class of High School I Girls in Church School; Epworth League. Mabel I Aspden, Class of Intermediate Girls in Church I School. I
ROSEDALE: Nellie Mae Wright, Primary Class; I Junior Church; Epworth League; calling. Bernice I Close, Junior Class; Junior Church; Intermediate
League; Week-Da- y Church School. B
ROANOKE: Frances Ansrell. Sunerintendent Junior B
Department; Junior League; calling. Beulah Van B
Camp, Superintendent Beginners' Department B
Church School; Junior League; calling. B
STEWART: Ethel Wolf, class in Junior Department I Church School; Epworth League; calling. Frances B
Mason, Church School and Epworth League. B
SUMMIT STREET: Edna McLean, class in Junior De- - B
partment Church School; Junior Church; Epworth B
League; calling. Janie Brashears, class in Junior B
Department; Intermediate League; calling. B
TRINITY: Ruth Robb, Church Kindergarten. Velma I Bird, Young People's Department Church School; H
Director Senior Epworth League. H
WASHINGTON AVENUE: Alice Murdock, teacher in I Young People's Department Church School; Junior
High and Senior Epworth League work. Mildred
White, teacher in Intermediate Department; H
Church Kindergarten; Epworth League.
WATSON MEMORIAL, Independence, Mo.: Mildred H
Stovall, class in Church School; Junior League. H
WESLEY, Kansas City, Mo.: Marguerite Rickey, In- - H
termediate Class in Church School; calling. Eliz- - 1
abeth Carson, class in Intermediate Department
j 4 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS I
Church School; Superintendent Junior League;
Choir work. Elizabeth Collon, class in Church
School; Epworth League pianist; Church organist.
WESLEY, Kansas City, Kas.; Mnurine Renger, class
in Church School; class in Week-Da- y Church
School, also Worship Period. Frances Ballou,
Church School and Epworth League; class in
Week-Da- y Church School.
WESTWOOD: Ruth Lower, class in Church School
Teen Ago Department; Camp Fire Group.
FIRST BAPTIST: Kathleen Bell, Church Kinder-garten.
ARGENTINE MEXICAN MISSION: Josephine Hcr-rer- a, I Beginners. Mabel Zimmerman, Primary
Boys; Boys' Club. Ethel Graves, Primary Girls;
Blue Birds; pianist. Frances Julius, Junior Girls;
Camp Fire. Jessie Bowden, Junior Boys; Super-intendent
Church School; Boys' Club.
SHEFFIELD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: Alice
Leonard, Superintendent. Verna Wheat, Mothers'
Class. Edith Dccl, Intermediate Girls; Moentita
Club. Violet Larson, Junior Girls; Night School.
Bertha McNeal, Junior Boys; Library and Story
Hour. Jeanette Arch, Cradle Roll; Sunday Night
Service; Story
organist.
Hour and Library. Elsie Jay, Be-ginners;
ITALIAN MISSION: Dorothy Wright, Junior Girls;
Christian Endeavor; Church Kindergarten. Edna
Shugart, Primary. Alta Tucker, class in Begin-ners
Department: Church Kindenrarten : Camn
calling.
HOME: Laura Galliers, Superintendent IFire; School; Alice Leonard, class of High School
Violet Larson, Intermediates. Edith Deel,
Girls. Bertha McNeal, Primary Girls.
SOME NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL MEETING
OF THE WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY
The Woman's Home
SOCIETY
Missionary Society has under
their administration 470 deaconesses, including 22 pro-bationers
graduated from the Training Schools in 1928.
Of these, 16 were from the Kansas City National Train-ing
School.
The total receipts of the Woman's Home Mission-ary
Society for the year 1927-192- 8 were $3,109,616.99.
I The year 1928 marks the fortieth anniversary of the beginning of Deaconess Work by the Woman's
Home Missionary Society. Looking backward to those
early days of small beginnings, loyal hearts and faith-ful
pioneers, and marching along through the years of
building and serving, we find the Deaconess Depart-ment
answering the .stirring and opportune question
that closed the Condensed Report of our Correspond-ing
Secretary last year: "Shall we not serve together?"
Yea, verily! for in every field and department of the
organization we now find the deaconess,
,
and From the President of I
a great Training School lo teachers in countless nnt.on-- I
wide Daily Vacation Bible Schools, Day Nurseries, Set- - I
tlements and Industrial .Schools; in Children's Homes, I Kindergartens and in many groups of loreign children I and young people. Mrs. John W. Lowe, Sec. Deaconess I Department. I
The most important factor in the organization is I
the individual member of the Auxiliary. It is because I she pays her dues, fills her mite-bo- x, makes her annual I Thank-offerin- g, her sacrificial gift during Lent, and I pays on the apportionment, that we have money in our I treasury to carry forward the work. This individual I member sees to it that her children are enlisted in the I various younger organizations, while she prays for the I work and workers. If the individual member can do I all this, is it not evident that the highest service one I can render is to secure new members of the Auxiliary, I and where there is no Auxiliary, secure them as Con- - I ference members? Each woman who secures a new , I member thereby doubles the value of her own service. ' I Carrie Barge, former Secretary of the Field Depart- - I mcnt.
Maud Royden said in last month's Forum, "To I American women the idea of service is irresistible. I Their religion is to make the Kingdom of Heaven come I on earth, and it is a great and glorious ambition." But H
further on in the article she warns us that the Amer-- I ican Protestant religion "lacks the spiritual depth and I the sense of the eternal tinners which conies only from I intensive spiritual discipline," that it "glorifies service
to bodies instead of service to souls." We should con- - H
sider this criticism. Does it apply to the work done by I our Society? Are we more anxious that bodies should H
be fed and clothed than that souls should be awakened H
and given opportunity of growth ? It is so much easier H
to clothe and feed a naked and hungry body than to H
clothe and feed a naked and hungry soul. Are we H
women of Protestant America doing only the easier H
thing? America is looking to the next generation to H
reform the abuses which this generation has s;de- - ' H
stepped. May all the boys and girls for whose training H
we are responsible be as strong in their stand for the
right as Ephraim at Jesse Lee Home, who would not S race on Sunday. Surely we are not more concerned H
with erecting beautiful buildings where healthy bodies H may grow than of.loving people into the Kingdom. We H
recall Paul's warning: "Though I give all my goods H to feed the poor, though I even give my body to the H flames, it will amount to nothing if I have not love." H
A prominent writer on criminology has this to say H which may well cause on : "With all
her brill.'ance and power, America's effort to cope with
the ugly problem of crime has been a tragic failure," H and much of this failure is ultimately laid at the door
of womanhood. Our short-comin- gs in the matter of
child training in the home, in the schools where the
great majority of teachers are women, in the Church
School where the same teachers do the work, in our so-ci- al
and family life where bridge and business take the
time which belongs to the children, should arouse us to
a consideration of this indictment. These derelictions
are more responsible for prevalence of crime than the
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H THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 5 I
of the court; mid the short-comin- gs of the
charge against our sex
1 a better law than the Volstead to enforce
I know a finer plan than the
Treaty for world-wid- e peace; 1 know a
bring about improved industrial relations
union has proposed; I know a remedy
troubles and sadnesses which we arc trying
It is the Grace of God. This is love and joy
and brotherhood and food and raiment and
happiness. This is eternal life today and
is no death. May this be the message
to the world this fiscal year of 1928-192- 9.
Home Missionary Society has only
Inadequacy it is the highest aim that mortals can not to win Heaven for ourselves, but to win
Jesus. In the center of our emblem is
By this sign we shall conquer. This was
of the founders. "The love of Christ
me," said Paul. Will that be the inner urge
you and me busy "in season and out of
the Soul of America? Shall we go
women? Mrs. W. H. C. Goode,
of the W. II. M. S.
next in. Home Missions for the Woman's
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
that the great home missions project
faces every woman who has the right of
franchise m our country. Of the 28,500,000 women
entitled to vote in the presidential election, the women
of the W. II. M. S. probably control 265,725 votes, or
more than a quarter of a million ballots.
We have been told that the men of our nation have
been disappointed in the women to whom franchise was
given, because women have not made good at the bal-lot
box so far as numbers of voters are concerned. We
acknowledge the truth of this statement, and urge our
women to become real American citizens by using the
power of the franchise Why should not I missionary women, and indeed all church women, be
f aroused to the seriousness of meeting this responsi-bility
and accepting gratefully this high privilege of
casting the ballot for God and righteousness?
Shall not the voting power of the Woman's Home
Missionary Society be 100 per cent on Nov. 6, 1928?
Thus shall be joined all forces of righteousness in
our great nation, while "For Love of Christ and in His
Name" we cast our ballots in the fear of God and for
the best and highest interests of our United States of
America. Mrs. May Leonard Woodruff, National Cor-responding
Secretary of the W. H. M. S.
I NEEDS
H We are pleading that the income from Conferences H may reach an amount sufficient to meet our needs. At H the present this income has remained too nearly sta- - H tionary to meet the demands. The needs of the organ- - H ization demand that we bring in our tithes and offer-- H ings if we are to reach the definite goal of advance. H Is it not time for us to learn if all is well with our souls H if we cannot hope for advancement or increase in our H Society's activities? The cross still lives in us as a
standard of service. I think it was Roger Babson who I said, "We may not go to the stake or even to prison
but the time is fast approaching when we shall need I to give up a great deal more than wc now do to show I our interest in religion and its work." Wc have no
lime to pity ourselves because of the large tasks be-- H
fore us, when wc should be undertaking great things H
for God. We dare not become apathetic or lukewarm, H
and wc should find response from many uninterested H
Methodist women "Stcwaidship the key H
to all progress is in itself an attitude of mind, an cx-- H
perience of the heart, a spiritual interpretation of hu- - H
man relationships, and man's attitude toward God in
everyday life as well as building for eternity," says H
Dr. Lovcjoy. H
Perseverance, everlastingly at it, twelve months in H
the year, and the ability to see beyond the present and H
to understand that the work at hand reaches beyond H
and for this reason" is so worth-whil- e, is the only way. H
Mrs. J. II. Freeman, National Treasurer, W. II. M. S.
HOW SHALL WE TREAT THE IMMIGRANT?
We arc having too much talk in America about the H
immigrant being a "problem." Almost every kmd of H
meeting since the great war has had somebody intro- - H
duced who would speak on the 'Immigrant Problem." H
It is an unhappy phrase. Who wants to be a problem, H anyway? All of our ancestors, unless they were In- - H
dians, were immigrants. None of us care to think of H
oiii nncoslors ns "problems." Tnrlonfl. Minv were iht
noble developers of America. That is what we think H . of them. We don't know what their neighbors thought. H
Let us think what effect this attitude has on the H immigrant. It is our desire to lead the immigrant into
the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ. If we are go- - H ing to lead anyone into the love and knowledge of Jesus
Christ we must first have that love and knowledge our-selve- s.
The immigrant, after reading that he has been
discussed at the Methodist Convention as one of the
"problems" the church faces, is most likely to help us
solve his part of it by staying away. You let your local
church just "whisper" around that you are a problem
and see how you feel about it. We will at least wonder
if they have any "love," if we don't even doubt if they
have any "knowledge."
Let us look at a more excellent way. It is God's fl
way. In olden days when God noted the sins of men
He gave certain commandments both negative and pos-itiv- e.
He noted that men would lie, steal, covet and
kill. To these He said "Thou Shalt not." We are all
familiar with the Ten Commandments. After we have
learned the Ten Commandments we feel like we are
through, but there are many others we need to learn.
This commandment God also gave to the ancient ,
Hebrews. "Thou shalt remember the foreigner (trans-late- d
stranger) within thy gates and treat him as one
born among you, for remember that thou wert once
strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord thy
God." Now the Lord not only gave this commandment ,
once, but the Old Testament carries thirty-si-x warnings
to "remember the widow, the orphan and the stranger."
Why "did God always put the foreigner with these other
two groups which all civilized nations care for? To
get us to quit lying He told us once, but to get us to
love the immigrant "as one born among us" He told
us thirty-si- x times and then grouped them with wid-ows
and orphans in order to make it emphatic.
Why does God love the foreigner so? Because- God
is the greatest alien of all ages, lie has always been
trying to cross new borders. He has been trying to I get into some churches, some homes, some hearts. He
knows what it is to stand at the door and knock. He
knows what it is to be despised and rejected of men.
If God so loved the foreigner then let us be like Him
by really and truly making the immigrant welcome in
our churches.
Ilcv. Ezra B. Cox.
TRAVELER'S AID OF Y. W. C. A. ASSISTED 3,532
PERSONS AT UNION STATION IN LAST YEAR
''Don't cry come into the depot and sit with me.
I'll see that you get home." I The sweet faced deaconess in her black dress and
tiny bonnet with its crisply starched white ties led a
Station.
little girl, whose face was tear streaked, into the Union
It was darlc. The child did not know how to reach
MISS MAE LEDGERWOOD
her home in Cedar Rapids alone, and her parents were
not down to meet her.
Quickly the deaconess reached for the telephone.
She called the child's Home and in a few minutes the
father was at the station. He had not received the
letter saying when his daughter would arrive home
from her vacation at grandma's.
This is a frequent occurrence at the Union Station.
The aid was given by Miss Mae Ledgerwood, whose
work in the Traveler's Aid Department of the Y. W.
C. A. is made possible by donations to the Community I Chest in which the institution has a share.
Mother to Traveling Public
Miss Ledgerwood is really "mother" for the travel-ing
public in Cedar Rapids.
Only a "mothering" woman would think of the
emergencies for which she provides.
In her desk is a first aid kit a couple of nursing
bottles for babies who drop theirs on the floor and I break them; bandages and nnt.soptics for the unfor-- I tunatc traveler who stumbles and skins a knee or cuts I a finger; and even needles and thread with which to I mend torn garments. I Every time a train pulls into the Union Station H
from '1 . m. until midnight Miss Ledgerwood is out B
on the platform.
Conductors know her and beckon to her if someone H
leaving the train needs help. Sometimes they call her H
to assist an invalid who is changing cars or who feels I he is strong enough to return home alone; sometimes H
nn imniicrrant crirl arrives she would have in-en- t diffi- - H
culty in reaching her local destination if friends fail to H
meet her. The conductor knows that Miss Ledgerwood H
will find an interpreter to help if the friends arc not H
there and if necessary she will see that shelter is pro-- H
vided for the newcomer. H
Often the quiet deaconess helps n mother traveling H
with several children. Sometimes she carries milk to H
the lunch counter in the adjoining room to have it H
heated for a travel weary and hungry baby. j H
Never, when Miss Ledgerwood reports for work H
in the late afternoon, docs she know what she will be H
asked to do in the next eight hours. H
The Woman Who Left Husband I "I'm leaving my husband I hate the town we live H
in I have no friends there and my husband never H talks to me in the evening," a strange woman confided H in her one day. pjJ
In her quiet, motherly, way Miss Ledgerwood vis- - pjJ
istcd with the distraught woman.
"Suddenly the stranger arose "I'm going back
home," she said. pH
"I do not know what I said to change her mind," said pH
Miss Ledgerwood and I have never seen her since. AH pH
I know is that she was from a small town not many pH
miles away. KB
Last year Miss Ledgerwood assisted 3,532 persons pH
at the Union Station. KB
(The sketch given above was taken from a recent pH
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, paper. Miss Ledgerwood was
graduated from the Kansas City National Training J pH
School in 1908 and took a year of graduate work in
1913-14- .) pH
NINE CAUSES FOR RACE PREJUDICE FOUND H IN SURVEY M
Behavior of Foreigners Is a Greater Obstacle to Friend- - pjpjj
Iiness Than Thdr Appearance, California pjpjj
Professor Believes pfpjJ
Los Angeles. Nine causes of race prejudice in the pfpjJ
United States have been listed as the result of a recent pjpjj
survey by Dr. Emory S. Bogardus, professor of soci- -
ology at the University of Southern California. Dr. KHI
Bogardus secured statements from 2,000 American cit- - RH
izens, all native-bor- n but descendants of nearly every KH
race of the globe ; living in New Encdand, the north and KjpjJ
south Atlantic states, the Middle West and the Pacific pFAH
Coast; representing both sexes, a wide range of re- - y KjpH
THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 7 I
' ligious beliefs, nnd n number of occupations. Behnvior
trails were given ns the cause of prejudice toward most
of the '10 races to which reactions were recorded. The
causes of race prejudice, as listed by Dr. Bognrdus,
are:
First The common trait of generalizing upon ad- -.
verso experiences with one or two persons, and of re-acting
against the entire race to which they belong.
Second Race egoism. The idea of the superiority
of one's own people.
Third Lack of cultural development of some
races.
Fourth The obtrusiveness and I' of an individual, which brings down n storm of
prejud'ee upon his whole race.
Fifth Successful competition on the pari of an
invading race.
Sixth The emphasis placed upon crimes commit-ted
by immigrants.
Seventh The habit of scenario and fiction writers
of choosing their villains from the lower-clas- s level of
some foreign race.
Eightn Marked differences in color of the skin,
shape of the eyes, nose nnd lips.
Ninth General hearsay nnd gossip. A friendly
racial deed may be told once or a few times, but an un-friendly
deed may be repeated a thousand fines, and
in retelling become exaggerated beyond all recognition.
Since race prejudice is a sentiment, it is an ac-quired
trait, and since it is an acquired trait, it may I be controlled and prevented to a surprising degree, ac-cording
to Professor Bogardus.
I AS DR. GRENFELL SAW IT
H Dr. Grenfell has been chosen the fifth honorary
H knight for life of the Loyal Knights of the Round Table.
H This honor is conferred only upon men who have ren--
H dered distinguished and meritorious service to human- -
H ity. It is worthy of note that there can be but 128 I knights of this order created during all coming years
H corresponding to the number of knights at the Round I Table of King Arthur.
H Now, that being that, we take it for granted that
Sir Willfred T. Grenfell, founder of the Grenfell mis- -
sions in Labrador, is neither "intolerant," "bigoted" I nor a moron. This is what he says in a recent inter--
view at the end of a lecture which took him into many I states : I "Conditions in the United States under prohibition I are far better than those under the licensing system I in Canada. Prohibition in this country is a tremen- - I dous success and nine-tent- hs of the general newspaper I accounts belittling its enforcement are greatly exag- - I gerated and entirely unreliable and valueless for those I who are looking for facts." I Dr. Grenfell emphasized the preponderance of sen--
timent in favor of prohibition which he found during I - his travels in this country, and declared any attempt I to modify the dry law by introducing the licensing sys-- I
tern would be a "backward step." I "I saw more intoxication and more of the ill re- - I suits of intoxication during the short time I was in I Winnipeg, Montreal, and Toronto recently, than I have I seen in this country in six months. During the past
I ,. two years I have lectured in every state of the Union
nnd I believe that the sentiment for prohibition in this I country is very strong nnd the reports of disregard of I the law are greatly exaggerated. I "In Dallas, Texas, 1 met something like 10,000 su- - I perintendents of public schools nnd the vast majority I of them are strongly in favor of prohibition. I have I seen tens of thousands of American children, especially I in the West, who have never seen liquor used ns n bev- -
erage, and a young generation is growing up thnt won't I want it." I Shall we take the "backward step" by electing a I "wet" president? Never 1
A. N. J.
We take the following from the bulletin of St. I Mark's M. E. Church, Brooklinc, Mass., for Sept. 1G, H
1928: Miss Elsie L. Miller is with us to serve as our H
religious education director for this year. Miss Miller H
is a graduate of the Kansas City National Training H
School, '21, and a senior in Boston University School H
of Religious Education. For two-year- s she served as H
assistant to President D. L. Marsh, when he was pas- - H
tor of a large church in Pittsburgh. She has also had H
a great deal of experience in Trinity M. E. Church, H
Wichita, Kansas, and as a faculty member in Epworth H
League Institutes. We bespeak for Miss Miller your H
most hearty and encouragement. H
PERSONALS I Miss Martha Bebermeyer, '25, is now parish dea-- H
coness for Centenary Church, Salt Lake City, Utah. H
Miss Mary Shoemaker, '21, is the new superin-tende-nt
at the Settlement in Bingham Canyon, Utah. H Rev. D. E. Fields, of Newburg, Mo., visited his H
daughter, Thelma, of our freshman class, not long H
since. H
Rev. II. C. Seidel, superintendent of Sager-Brow- n H Orphanage, Baldwin, La., called at K. C. N. T. S., Oc- - H tober 14. H Mrs. L. L. Laffoon, of Sarcoxie, Mo., has been vis- - H
iting her sister, Miss Grace Hutcheson, of our factulty, "H
for a week. H
Miss Nina B. McCosh, '12, of Guthrie, Okla., called H to see her Training School friends, Oct. 10, on her
way to Wichita. H Miss Phoebe Powell, '28, writes very happily of her
work as assistant superintendent at Eliza Dee Home, jH
Austin, Texas.
Mr. D. H. Lawson, of New York City, made his
daughter, Margaret, very happy Sept. 17 by visiting
her at the Training School.
Miss Iva Tibbetts, '22, has taken up work in Union
Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church in connection
with the Pittsburgh, Pa., Deaconess Home.
Miss Neva Carden, '28, has been appointed to West
Park M. E. Church, Cleveland, Ohio, a new and growing wM
church into which one can wisely put her life, as she JH says. 'HH
Miss Lela Powers, '29, was made happy Oct. 9 by
a short visit from her pastor's wife, Mrs. W. H. Welch,
of Hartley, Iowa, on her way to the National Meeting
in Wichita.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Bowers announce the birth of
Junior, at Miami, Okla., Oct. 3rd. Mrs. Bowers was
with us year before last for one semester, and is
as Helen Whitney. Best wishes ! jjjjH
Officers of the K. C. N. T. S.
Alumnno Association
Prcildent
1928-192- 9
MUi Aletta M. Garretton I Vice-Prciidc- Mi'u Graco ilutcheion
Recording Secretary Mitt Vcrna Wlieat
Corretponding Secretary Mitt Graco Vauto
Treaiurer MIn Minnio Piko
Hittorian Mitt Bertha Cowlet
Editor, K. C. D Mitt Anna Neiderholier
Treat, Special Gift Fund Mii Anna Neiderheiier
Chairman Rending Courto Com.... Mil Edith Wilton
September 12th, in Glendnle, California, Jane
Louise Barrows was united in marriage to Mr. Roland
C. Hillyer. Mrs. Ilillyer will be remembered as Jane
Barrows, '11. The best wishes of her many friends go
with her.
Miss Renn E. Kciser, deaconess from the Settle-
I ment in Kulpmont, Pa., a graduate of Lucy Webb Hayes
I National Training School, made her K. C. N. T. S.
friends
Wichita.
a very happy visit Oct. 15, returning from
Miss C. Blanche Duncan, R.N., '13, made us a
happy little visit the twenty-firs-t. She is at present
at home in Beloit, Kas., having severed her connection
with the hosnilnl in Orancro. Texas, where she served H for three years. H Miss Hettie Mae Parsons, who has been with us H for D. V. B. S. work several different summers, is now H a member of the staff at the Epworth School for Girls, H Webster Groves, Mo., as one of the teachers. She is H greatly enjoying the work.
H We were happy to have a call on Sept. 21 from H Miss Neoma Harris, '27, now deaconess at the Chil- -
H dren's Home in Warrenton, Mo. She was with Rev. C. H G. Holm and eight of the children, returning from the H St. Louis Conference, where they put on a demonstra- -
tion.
H Miss Beth Stewart, "22, sailed Oct. 6th from Se- -
H attle, for Seward, Alaska, where she has been appointed
H nurse in our Jesse Lee Home 'for Esquinio children.
H' Miss Stewart is very happy to again be with the chil- -
H dren in the northland, after completing her nurse train- -
H ing in Bethany Hospital. I Miss Anna Neiderheiser, Miss Eva Rigg, and Miss
H Pearle Tibbetts attended the National Meeting of the
H Woman's Home Missionary Society in Wichita, Kas., I from the beginning. Miss Elizabeth Curry and Mrs.
H Edith Carter, of our faculty, were there from Friday I morning till Monday night. I Miss Dorothy Gahring, '25, has taken up her work I as deaconess for Central Methodist Episcopal Church, I Oskaloosa, Iowa. Miss Frieda Schmickle, '08, who I served this church so faithfully for seven years is tak- - I ing a much needed vacation and expects to be in school I for graduate work at K. C. N. T. S. the second semester. I Rev. Charles S. Cole, D.D., president of the Lucy
Webb Hayes National Training School, Washington, D.
C, visited K. C. N. T. S. the morning of Oct. 12. In
the afternoon Rev. C. Boatman, D.D., president of the I Iowa Bible Training School, Des Moines, Iowa, tarried I with us for a while. Both were on their way to Wich- -
ita, to the National W. H. M. S. Convention.
Ii
Miss Joy Smith, '15, made her K. C. N. T. S. I friends very happy Thursday, Oct. 18, by spending
several hours with them, on her way to the General I Executivo of the W. F. M. S., in Los Angeles. Miss
Smith sails Nov. 23 on the President Pierce, from San
Francisco, returning to her beloved work in Nanking,
China.
Other friends who have registered: I Rev. F. Richnrd, Gladys Sharp, Cenlerview, Mo.; H
George L. Mcars, Parsons, Kas.; Mrs. E. II. Stafford, H
Donald Stafford, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Earl Brooks,
Pratt, Kas.; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McGrew; Mrs. P. W.
Blair, Muncie, Kas.; Wayne White, Lawrence, Kas.; H
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Ward, Pleasant Hill, Mo.; Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. J. Rayl, Joplin, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. F. J. H
Wolfe, Conway Springs, Kas.; Miss Helen Wlllias, loin, H
Kas.; Walter R. Black, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mrs. W. E. M.
Schloeman, Mrs. George P. Southard, Seattle, Wash.; H Mrs. J. C. Holloway, Hutchinson, Kas.; Rev. F. 0. H Hunt, Jasper, Mo.; Mrs. W. N. Hill, Clear Lake, Iowa; H Mrs. A. W. Stout, Newton, Kas.; Mrs. P. W. Bruce, H Topeka, Kas. ; Miss Laura Brown, Billings, Okln. H
Oct. 16 the following W. H. M. S. friends from the H
East, on their way back from the National Meeting, H tarried with us some hours, greatly to our pleasure: H Mrs. W. S. Valmore, Mansfield, Ohio; Mrs. W. W.
Welch, New Philadelphia, Ohio ; Mrs. L. H. Souder, Mrs. H A. C. Brady, Burl'ngton, N. J.; Miss Eda Panz, Bridge- -
ton, N. J.; Mrs. Foss Zartman, Lima, Ohio; Mrs. C. L.
Spaid, Findlay, Ohio; Mrs. H. J. Holcombe, Athens,
Ohio; Mrs. John Ash, Syracuse, N. Y.; Mrs. H. S. Os-bor- n,
Ithaca, N. Y. ; Mrs. M. E. Bowman, Horseheads,
N. Y.; Mrs. J. L. Duckwall. Mrs. Ladru M. Layton,
Springfield, Ohio; Mary E. Kline, Mrs. J. T. Vance,
Ohio; Mrs. J. C. Kelly, Mitchell, Ind.; Mrs. E.
H. Baker, Mrs. M. A. Farr, Indianapolis, Ind.; Mrs. J.
E. W. Bucke, Mrs. J. Howard Ake, Harrisburg, Pa.;
Mrs. J. C. McArthur, Altoona, Pa.; Mrs. A. W. Gates,
Barre, Vt.; Mrs. E. Howard Roberts, Wauwatosa, Wis.;
Mrs. Nannie S. Miller, Coshocton, Ohio; Mrs. W. S.
Ennes, Princeton, Ind.
Oct. 8 and 9 it was our privilege to have as guests
a goodly number of our W. H. M. S. friends, enroute to
the National Meeting in Wichita. From the Philadel-phi- a
Conference: Mrs. Seymour Eaton, Lansdowne;
Mrs. K. S. Burnett and Mrs. Sprowles, Frankford; Mrs.
E. J. Rooksby, Oak Lane ; Miss Helen B. Singleton, Me-di- r;
Miss Jessie H. Priest, Rorborough; Miss Hannah
P. Miller, Miss Lelia B. Taylor, Mrs. H. B. Altenderfer,
Philadelphia. From New York City: Mrs. J. Thomas
Arnold, Mrs. M. S. Pressey, Mrs. S. W. Grafflin. Bing-hamto- n,
N. Y.: Mrs. F. J. Scott, Mrs. D. M. Schooley,
Mason City, Iowa: Mrs. L. E. Goodhile, Mrs. E. L. Cur-rie- r;
Laura May Robinson. Oak Park, 111.; Mrs. Carl
S. Hart, New Castle, Pa. ; Mrs. Harold R. Hankey, Tid-iout- e,
Pa. ; Mrs. A. M. Guerin? Morristown, N. J. ; Mrs.
D. D. Renner, Minneapolis, Minn. ; Mrs. F. C. Bowman,
Duluth, Minn.; Mrs. M. G. Shuman, Mrs. C. M. Black-ma- n,
Anne C. Rothausen, St. Paul, Minn.; Mrs. Fred
Dimmitt, Ottumwa, Iowa; Mrs. Fred M. Morris, Mrs.
J. W. Mohan, Mrs. A. V. Greenlee, Mrs. W. G. Morris,
Charleston, W. Va.; Mrs. H. S. Hollingsworth, Oak
Park, 111. ; Mrs. J. C. Haley, Tacoma, Wash. ; Mrs. Rena
Waltz Pierson, Santa Monica, Calif. ; Mrs. Geo. A. Ske-wi- s,
Whittier, Calif.; Mrs. C. P. Colegrove, Pasadena,
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VOL. XX. KANSAS CITY, MO., OCTOBER, 1928. No. 10
IF WE BELIVED IN GOD.
If we believed in God, there would be light
Upon our pathway in the darkest night.
If we believed in God, there would be power
To foil the tempter in the sorest hour.
If we believed in God; there would be peace
In this world's warfare, ever to increase.
If we believed in God, there would be joy
Even in tears, that nothing could destroy.
If we believed in God, there would be love
To heal all wounds and lift the world above.
Lord Christ, be near us, that, beholding Thee
We may believe in God and be set free!
--Jessie Wiseman Gibbs.
2 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS
The Kansas City Deaconess
Published Monthly in the interest of the Kansas
City National Training School of the
Woman's Home Missionary society.
EDITOR; ANNA NEIDERHEISER.
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at one time may send in the eleventh name, to whom the
paper will be sent free for a year. If You See a Blue Mark
Here Your subscription Has Expired.
All correspondence concerning contributions, and subscriptions
should be addressed to the Editor, Miss Anna Neiderheiser, corner
East Fifteenth Street and Denver Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.
Entered as second-class matter, October 27, 1908 at the post-office at
Kansas City, Mo., 3879.
under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in
section 1103, October 3, 1917.
KANSAS CITY, MO., OCTOBER, 1928.
EDITORIAL
FOUNDER'S DAY
We have come to look forward with eagerness to
Founder's Day, the last week in October, as a lime of
happy fellowship at the Kansas City National Training
School, when our friends come to mingle with us and I get better acquainted.
This year the date is October 29th. From eight
till ten o'clock that evening will be Open House at the
Training School, with opportunity to see the buildings
and equipment and to meet the students and dea-conesses.
planned.
A number of interesting features are being
We trust that many of our friends may be able
to be present.
IN LOYALTY AND LOVE
The deep spiritual note so evident in K. C. N. T. S.,
which makes all our hearts rejoice, because it is the
keynote of the kind of success for which its workers I are working and praying, was given expression in a
unique and very impressive service, held Saturday eve-ning,
September 16th. The non-reside- nt faculty and
the members of the Local Board were invited and a
number were present. It brought us all closer together
and nearer to our common Lord.
It was a real treat to have with us, Oct. 17-1- 9, Mrs.
Byron Wilson of Seattle, Washington, the retiring sec-
I retary of the Young People's Department of the W. H.
M. S. At the chapel hour on Thursday morning she
brought a vital "message to our family on Adventuring
and Pioneering.
I Friday morning, Oct. 19, at the chapel service, our I good friend, Mrs. Dan Brummitt, brought us a mes- - I sage out of her heart on the Beautiful Life. It was I good to have her with us-onc- e more.
I l
CAN YOU HELP OUT?
' The library of the Kansas City National School is
in need of the following issues of the Annual Report of
the Woman's Home Missionary Society. Wc know that
sometimes these arc put away in the home and not
cared for, while with us they arc needed for reference
work. So if you have any one or more of these and
will send them to us they will be greatly appreciated
and will meet a real need: 1905-190- 1906-190- 7 and
1908-190- 9.
The morning of October 9 it was our privilege to I
have the Philadelphia Conference delegation with us I for the chapel hour; also Mrs. C. P. Colegrovc, secre-- I tary of the Bureau for Chinese Work; and Mrs. II. S. I Hollingsworth, secretary of the Western and Northern I Bureau of the Deaconess Department. Messages were I given by Mrs. Seymour Eaton, secretary of the Immi- - I grant Bureau; Miss Hannah Miller, bureau secretary I in the Young People's Department; Mrs. Colegrove and q I Mrs. Hollingsworth. Mrs. K. S. Burnett was introduced I as a friend who helped K. C. N. T. S. out in a time of I unusual financial strain. I
Wednesday morning, October 10, it was our rare I good fortune to have as our chapel speaker Bishop I Francis Wesley Warne, D.D., for so many years iden- - H
tified with the work in India. He read as the morning H
lesson a part of the first chapter of Ephesians. The H
thought which stands out above all else in his message H
is that Christ has an inheritance in us as His followers H
that He is expecting something of us without which H
His inheritance will not be complete. It was a real H
blessing to have the Bishop tarry with us a night and H
a day. H
The Saturday evening prayer service, October 13, H at K. C. N. T. S., was led by Rev. Eli P. Anderson, D.D.,
pastor of Marlborough M. E. Church. Dr. Anderson, H one of God's saints always brings a blessing with him. H
WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITIES
This past year has been a wonderful one. I do not
see how another could possibly be better. The wide-awa- ke
Day Nursery Kindergarten group was a real
challenge. When looking at "Christ and the Doctors,"
Humberto asked, "Is He telling them He is God ?" The
picture of the Ascension caused Cackiko to question,
"Plow she fly?" Gerald stated, when looking at the pic-tu- re
of Jesus in the boat during the storm, "He says
'Please be still, please be still' !"
One surely needs great wisdom to guide little ones,
but it is so interesting and satisfying from day to day.
The afternoon group is larger and half are Jap-anes- e.
They are especially responsive and appre-ciativ- e.
The Sunday group has increased and crowds the
room. Our work is starting very nicely this fall, with
even better attendance than last year.
Marie Hoge, '26, Los Angeles. . j
H THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 3
IN TOUCH WITH MANY FOLK
One of the privileges which come to the students
of the Kansas City National Training School is that of
working with the leaders of Kansas City Methodism in
the many churches of our two cities and in the mis-sions,
settlements and other institutions which offer
such fine opportunity for constructive service.
The appointments for the coming months are as
follows, subject to minor changes as time passes and
needs change: I AGNES AVENUE: LeMardrcd Brushwood, class of
High School Girls; Epworth League; Junior
League or Junior Church, later. Some work in
church office.
ARLINGTON and HIGH OAKS: Myrtle Pylman,
Junior Boys and Girls in Church School ; Interme-diate
League; Pianist for Church School, Church
and Epworth League; Calling; Prayer Meeting.
i BEAUMONT: Madge Sieg, Church School Class of
Young
calling.
Women; Superintendent Junior League;
BROADWAY: Thelma Fields, Cradle Roll: Church
Kindergarten. Leota Kruger, Primary Class of
Boys; Senior League; calling.
CENTRAL, Armourdale: Marie Button, Third Year
Primary Boys and Girls. Electa Schaefer, Senior
Girls; calling.
I CENTRAL AVENUE: Grace Parker, Second Year Primary; Epworth League; calling. Grace Guer-rett- e,
Beginners; Intermediate League.
COUNTRY CLUB: Ruby Owen, Church School and
Epworth League. Elizabeth McKendrick, Third
Year Junior Girls; Sponsor Intermediate League;
attend Epworth League.
H (iKAUU: lcum Kitzmiiior, mgn scnooi uiris; sponsor
Epworth League, calling. Louise Smith, Superin-- B
tendent Junior League; Assistant Superintendent B j-
- Junior Department Church School; Teacher in B Junior Department. I GRAND AVENUE: Caroline Kloeppel, member of B Church Choir; Director of Junior Choir; Assistant B Teacher in Church School. Bernice Whipple, Mis--
B sionary Education in Junior Department Church B School. Catherine Lockard, Church Kindergarten. I INDEPENDENCE AVENUE: Mildred Tremaine, I class of Girls in Church School; other work later.
B Ellen Romig, Church Kindergarten. I INDIANA AVENUE: Rozella Wehrman, Graduating I Junior Class in Church School; other work later. I LINWOOD BOULEVARD: Evelyn. Bloomer, Junior I Girls; Epworth League; calling. Jennette Leh- - I man, Intermediate Department Work; calling. I LONDON HEIGHTS: Intermediate Class in Church
School; Sponsor Intermediate League; Teacher in I Week-Da- y Church School.
I MARLBOROUGH: Naomi Coger, Teacher in Church I School; Epworth League ; calling.
METROPOLITAN AVENUE : Vesta Roberson, Teach-er
in Church School; Epworth League; Junior
League later. Jessie Bowden, Ethel Graves, Fran-ces
Julius, Mabel Zimmerman, attend Epworth
League.
OAKHURST: Helen Rode, Church School and Ep-worth
League. Kathleen Bell, Epworth League;
calling. Margaret Lawson, Beginners in Church
School; calling.
OAKLEY: LaDonna Bogardus, Class of Junior Boys;
calling; Junior League later. Lucile Robinson,
Class in Junior Department; Junior League, and
later, Intermediate League; calling.
PASEO: Alice Hnskins, Director of Pageantry; Class
in Church School; Epworth League; calling. Hat-ti- e
Rand, Class of Boys in Church School; High
School League.
PHOENIX PARK: Fredda Wolfe, Class in Interme-diate
Department Church School; Epworth
League ; calling. Alice Clough, Intermediate Girls ;
Epworth League; calling.
OUAYLE MEMORIAL: Lela Powers. Class in Inter
mediate Department Church School ; Organize In- - I termediate League; Direct Junior Choir. Marien
Holbert, Class in Junior Department Church I School; Epworth League; Junior Choir; calling. I
QUINDARO: Lillian Koehler, Class of High School I Girls in Church School; Epworth League. Mabel I Aspden, Class of Intermediate Girls in Church I School. I
ROSEDALE: Nellie Mae Wright, Primary Class; I Junior Church; Epworth League; calling. Bernice I Close, Junior Class; Junior Church; Intermediate
League; Week-Da- y Church School. B
ROANOKE: Frances Ansrell. Sunerintendent Junior B
Department; Junior League; calling. Beulah Van B
Camp, Superintendent Beginners' Department B
Church School; Junior League; calling. B
STEWART: Ethel Wolf, class in Junior Department I Church School; Epworth League; calling. Frances B
Mason, Church School and Epworth League. B
SUMMIT STREET: Edna McLean, class in Junior De- - B
partment Church School; Junior Church; Epworth B
League; calling. Janie Brashears, class in Junior B
Department; Intermediate League; calling. B
TRINITY: Ruth Robb, Church Kindergarten. Velma I Bird, Young People's Department Church School; H
Director Senior Epworth League. H
WASHINGTON AVENUE: Alice Murdock, teacher in I Young People's Department Church School; Junior
High and Senior Epworth League work. Mildred
White, teacher in Intermediate Department; H
Church Kindergarten; Epworth League.
WATSON MEMORIAL, Independence, Mo.: Mildred H
Stovall, class in Church School; Junior League. H
WESLEY, Kansas City, Mo.: Marguerite Rickey, In- - H
termediate Class in Church School; calling. Eliz- - 1
abeth Carson, class in Intermediate Department
j 4 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS I
Church School; Superintendent Junior League;
Choir work. Elizabeth Collon, class in Church
School; Epworth League pianist; Church organist.
WESLEY, Kansas City, Kas.; Mnurine Renger, class
in Church School; class in Week-Da- y Church
School, also Worship Period. Frances Ballou,
Church School and Epworth League; class in
Week-Da- y Church School.
WESTWOOD: Ruth Lower, class in Church School
Teen Ago Department; Camp Fire Group.
FIRST BAPTIST: Kathleen Bell, Church Kinder-garten.
ARGENTINE MEXICAN MISSION: Josephine Hcr-rer- a, I Beginners. Mabel Zimmerman, Primary
Boys; Boys' Club. Ethel Graves, Primary Girls;
Blue Birds; pianist. Frances Julius, Junior Girls;
Camp Fire. Jessie Bowden, Junior Boys; Super-intendent
Church School; Boys' Club.
SHEFFIELD NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: Alice
Leonard, Superintendent. Verna Wheat, Mothers'
Class. Edith Dccl, Intermediate Girls; Moentita
Club. Violet Larson, Junior Girls; Night School.
Bertha McNeal, Junior Boys; Library and Story
Hour. Jeanette Arch, Cradle Roll; Sunday Night
Service; Story
organist.
Hour and Library. Elsie Jay, Be-ginners;
ITALIAN MISSION: Dorothy Wright, Junior Girls;
Christian Endeavor; Church Kindergarten. Edna
Shugart, Primary. Alta Tucker, class in Begin-ners
Department: Church Kindenrarten : Camn
calling.
HOME: Laura Galliers, Superintendent IFire; School; Alice Leonard, class of High School
Violet Larson, Intermediates. Edith Deel,
Girls. Bertha McNeal, Primary Girls.
SOME NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL MEETING
OF THE WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY
The Woman's Home
SOCIETY
Missionary Society has under
their administration 470 deaconesses, including 22 pro-bationers
graduated from the Training Schools in 1928.
Of these, 16 were from the Kansas City National Train-ing
School.
The total receipts of the Woman's Home Mission-ary
Society for the year 1927-192- 8 were $3,109,616.99.
I The year 1928 marks the fortieth anniversary of the beginning of Deaconess Work by the Woman's
Home Missionary Society. Looking backward to those
early days of small beginnings, loyal hearts and faith-ful
pioneers, and marching along through the years of
building and serving, we find the Deaconess Depart-ment
answering the .stirring and opportune question
that closed the Condensed Report of our Correspond-ing
Secretary last year: "Shall we not serve together?"
Yea, verily! for in every field and department of the
organization we now find the deaconess,
,
and From the President of I
a great Training School lo teachers in countless nnt.on-- I
wide Daily Vacation Bible Schools, Day Nurseries, Set- - I
tlements and Industrial .Schools; in Children's Homes, I Kindergartens and in many groups of loreign children I and young people. Mrs. John W. Lowe, Sec. Deaconess I Department. I
The most important factor in the organization is I
the individual member of the Auxiliary. It is because I she pays her dues, fills her mite-bo- x, makes her annual I Thank-offerin- g, her sacrificial gift during Lent, and I pays on the apportionment, that we have money in our I treasury to carry forward the work. This individual I member sees to it that her children are enlisted in the I various younger organizations, while she prays for the I work and workers. If the individual member can do I all this, is it not evident that the highest service one I can render is to secure new members of the Auxiliary, I and where there is no Auxiliary, secure them as Con- - I ference members? Each woman who secures a new , I member thereby doubles the value of her own service. ' I Carrie Barge, former Secretary of the Field Depart- - I mcnt.
Maud Royden said in last month's Forum, "To I American women the idea of service is irresistible. I Their religion is to make the Kingdom of Heaven come I on earth, and it is a great and glorious ambition." But H
further on in the article she warns us that the Amer-- I ican Protestant religion "lacks the spiritual depth and I the sense of the eternal tinners which conies only from I intensive spiritual discipline," that it "glorifies service
to bodies instead of service to souls." We should con- - H
sider this criticism. Does it apply to the work done by I our Society? Are we more anxious that bodies should H
be fed and clothed than that souls should be awakened H
and given opportunity of growth ? It is so much easier H
to clothe and feed a naked and hungry body than to H
clothe and feed a naked and hungry soul. Are we H
women of Protestant America doing only the easier H
thing? America is looking to the next generation to H
reform the abuses which this generation has s;de- - ' H
stepped. May all the boys and girls for whose training H
we are responsible be as strong in their stand for the
right as Ephraim at Jesse Lee Home, who would not S race on Sunday. Surely we are not more concerned H
with erecting beautiful buildings where healthy bodies H may grow than of.loving people into the Kingdom. We H
recall Paul's warning: "Though I give all my goods H to feed the poor, though I even give my body to the H flames, it will amount to nothing if I have not love." H
A prominent writer on criminology has this to say H which may well cause on : "With all
her brill.'ance and power, America's effort to cope with
the ugly problem of crime has been a tragic failure," H and much of this failure is ultimately laid at the door
of womanhood. Our short-comin- gs in the matter of
child training in the home, in the schools where the
great majority of teachers are women, in the Church
School where the same teachers do the work, in our so-ci- al
and family life where bridge and business take the
time which belongs to the children, should arouse us to
a consideration of this indictment. These derelictions
are more responsible for prevalence of crime than the
1 I
H THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 5 I
of the court; mid the short-comin- gs of the
charge against our sex
1 a better law than the Volstead to enforce
I know a finer plan than the
Treaty for world-wid- e peace; 1 know a
bring about improved industrial relations
union has proposed; I know a remedy
troubles and sadnesses which we arc trying
It is the Grace of God. This is love and joy
and brotherhood and food and raiment and
happiness. This is eternal life today and
is no death. May this be the message
to the world this fiscal year of 1928-192- 9.
Home Missionary Society has only
Inadequacy it is the highest aim that mortals can not to win Heaven for ourselves, but to win
Jesus. In the center of our emblem is
By this sign we shall conquer. This was
of the founders. "The love of Christ
me," said Paul. Will that be the inner urge
you and me busy "in season and out of
the Soul of America? Shall we go
women? Mrs. W. H. C. Goode,
of the W. II. M. S.
next in. Home Missions for the Woman's
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
that the great home missions project
faces every woman who has the right of
franchise m our country. Of the 28,500,000 women
entitled to vote in the presidential election, the women
of the W. II. M. S. probably control 265,725 votes, or
more than a quarter of a million ballots.
We have been told that the men of our nation have
been disappointed in the women to whom franchise was
given, because women have not made good at the bal-lot
box so far as numbers of voters are concerned. We
acknowledge the truth of this statement, and urge our
women to become real American citizens by using the
power of the franchise Why should not I missionary women, and indeed all church women, be
f aroused to the seriousness of meeting this responsi-bility
and accepting gratefully this high privilege of
casting the ballot for God and righteousness?
Shall not the voting power of the Woman's Home
Missionary Society be 100 per cent on Nov. 6, 1928?
Thus shall be joined all forces of righteousness in
our great nation, while "For Love of Christ and in His
Name" we cast our ballots in the fear of God and for
the best and highest interests of our United States of
America. Mrs. May Leonard Woodruff, National Cor-responding
Secretary of the W. H. M. S.
I NEEDS
H We are pleading that the income from Conferences H may reach an amount sufficient to meet our needs. At H the present this income has remained too nearly sta- - H tionary to meet the demands. The needs of the organ- - H ization demand that we bring in our tithes and offer-- H ings if we are to reach the definite goal of advance. H Is it not time for us to learn if all is well with our souls H if we cannot hope for advancement or increase in our H Society's activities? The cross still lives in us as a
standard of service. I think it was Roger Babson who I said, "We may not go to the stake or even to prison
but the time is fast approaching when we shall need I to give up a great deal more than wc now do to show I our interest in religion and its work." Wc have no
lime to pity ourselves because of the large tasks be-- H
fore us, when wc should be undertaking great things H
for God. We dare not become apathetic or lukewarm, H
and wc should find response from many uninterested H
Methodist women "Stcwaidship the key H
to all progress is in itself an attitude of mind, an cx-- H
perience of the heart, a spiritual interpretation of hu- - H
man relationships, and man's attitude toward God in
everyday life as well as building for eternity," says H
Dr. Lovcjoy. H
Perseverance, everlastingly at it, twelve months in H
the year, and the ability to see beyond the present and H
to understand that the work at hand reaches beyond H
and for this reason" is so worth-whil- e, is the only way. H
Mrs. J. II. Freeman, National Treasurer, W. II. M. S.
HOW SHALL WE TREAT THE IMMIGRANT?
We arc having too much talk in America about the H
immigrant being a "problem." Almost every kmd of H
meeting since the great war has had somebody intro- - H
duced who would speak on the 'Immigrant Problem." H
It is an unhappy phrase. Who wants to be a problem, H anyway? All of our ancestors, unless they were In- - H
dians, were immigrants. None of us care to think of H
oiii nncoslors ns "problems." Tnrlonfl. Minv were iht
noble developers of America. That is what we think H . of them. We don't know what their neighbors thought. H
Let us think what effect this attitude has on the H immigrant. It is our desire to lead the immigrant into
the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ. If we are go- - H ing to lead anyone into the love and knowledge of Jesus
Christ we must first have that love and knowledge our-selve- s.
The immigrant, after reading that he has been
discussed at the Methodist Convention as one of the
"problems" the church faces, is most likely to help us
solve his part of it by staying away. You let your local
church just "whisper" around that you are a problem
and see how you feel about it. We will at least wonder
if they have any "love," if we don't even doubt if they
have any "knowledge."
Let us look at a more excellent way. It is God's fl
way. In olden days when God noted the sins of men
He gave certain commandments both negative and pos-itiv- e.
He noted that men would lie, steal, covet and
kill. To these He said "Thou Shalt not." We are all
familiar with the Ten Commandments. After we have
learned the Ten Commandments we feel like we are
through, but there are many others we need to learn.
This commandment God also gave to the ancient ,
Hebrews. "Thou shalt remember the foreigner (trans-late- d
stranger) within thy gates and treat him as one
born among you, for remember that thou wert once
strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord thy
God." Now the Lord not only gave this commandment ,
once, but the Old Testament carries thirty-si-x warnings
to "remember the widow, the orphan and the stranger."
Why "did God always put the foreigner with these other
two groups which all civilized nations care for? To
get us to quit lying He told us once, but to get us to
love the immigrant "as one born among us" He told
us thirty-si- x times and then grouped them with wid-ows
and orphans in order to make it emphatic.
Why does God love the foreigner so? Because- God
is the greatest alien of all ages, lie has always been
trying to cross new borders. He has been trying to I get into some churches, some homes, some hearts. He
knows what it is to stand at the door and knock. He
knows what it is to be despised and rejected of men.
If God so loved the foreigner then let us be like Him
by really and truly making the immigrant welcome in
our churches.
Ilcv. Ezra B. Cox.
TRAVELER'S AID OF Y. W. C. A. ASSISTED 3,532
PERSONS AT UNION STATION IN LAST YEAR
''Don't cry come into the depot and sit with me.
I'll see that you get home." I The sweet faced deaconess in her black dress and
tiny bonnet with its crisply starched white ties led a
Station.
little girl, whose face was tear streaked, into the Union
It was darlc. The child did not know how to reach
MISS MAE LEDGERWOOD
her home in Cedar Rapids alone, and her parents were
not down to meet her.
Quickly the deaconess reached for the telephone.
She called the child's Home and in a few minutes the
father was at the station. He had not received the
letter saying when his daughter would arrive home
from her vacation at grandma's.
This is a frequent occurrence at the Union Station.
The aid was given by Miss Mae Ledgerwood, whose
work in the Traveler's Aid Department of the Y. W.
C. A. is made possible by donations to the Community I Chest in which the institution has a share.
Mother to Traveling Public
Miss Ledgerwood is really "mother" for the travel-ing
public in Cedar Rapids.
Only a "mothering" woman would think of the
emergencies for which she provides.
In her desk is a first aid kit a couple of nursing
bottles for babies who drop theirs on the floor and I break them; bandages and nnt.soptics for the unfor-- I tunatc traveler who stumbles and skins a knee or cuts I a finger; and even needles and thread with which to I mend torn garments. I Every time a train pulls into the Union Station H
from '1 . m. until midnight Miss Ledgerwood is out B
on the platform.
Conductors know her and beckon to her if someone H
leaving the train needs help. Sometimes they call her H
to assist an invalid who is changing cars or who feels I he is strong enough to return home alone; sometimes H
nn imniicrrant crirl arrives she would have in-en- t diffi- - H
culty in reaching her local destination if friends fail to H
meet her. The conductor knows that Miss Ledgerwood H
will find an interpreter to help if the friends arc not H
there and if necessary she will see that shelter is pro-- H
vided for the newcomer. H
Often the quiet deaconess helps n mother traveling H
with several children. Sometimes she carries milk to H
the lunch counter in the adjoining room to have it H
heated for a travel weary and hungry baby. j H
Never, when Miss Ledgerwood reports for work H
in the late afternoon, docs she know what she will be H
asked to do in the next eight hours. H
The Woman Who Left Husband I "I'm leaving my husband I hate the town we live H
in I have no friends there and my husband never H talks to me in the evening," a strange woman confided H in her one day. pjJ
In her quiet, motherly, way Miss Ledgerwood vis- - pjJ
istcd with the distraught woman.
"Suddenly the stranger arose "I'm going back
home," she said. pH
"I do not know what I said to change her mind," said pH
Miss Ledgerwood and I have never seen her since. AH pH
I know is that she was from a small town not many pH
miles away. KB
Last year Miss Ledgerwood assisted 3,532 persons pH
at the Union Station. KB
(The sketch given above was taken from a recent pH
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, paper. Miss Ledgerwood was
graduated from the Kansas City National Training J pH
School in 1908 and took a year of graduate work in
1913-14- .) pH
NINE CAUSES FOR RACE PREJUDICE FOUND H IN SURVEY M
Behavior of Foreigners Is a Greater Obstacle to Friend- - pjpjj
Iiness Than Thdr Appearance, California pjpjj
Professor Believes pfpjJ
Los Angeles. Nine causes of race prejudice in the pfpjJ
United States have been listed as the result of a recent pjpjj
survey by Dr. Emory S. Bogardus, professor of soci- -
ology at the University of Southern California. Dr. KHI
Bogardus secured statements from 2,000 American cit- - RH
izens, all native-bor- n but descendants of nearly every KH
race of the globe ; living in New Encdand, the north and KjpjJ
south Atlantic states, the Middle West and the Pacific pFAH
Coast; representing both sexes, a wide range of re- - y KjpH
THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 7 I
' ligious beliefs, nnd n number of occupations. Behnvior
trails were given ns the cause of prejudice toward most
of the '10 races to which reactions were recorded. The
causes of race prejudice, as listed by Dr. Bognrdus,
are:
First The common trait of generalizing upon ad- -.
verso experiences with one or two persons, and of re-acting
against the entire race to which they belong.
Second Race egoism. The idea of the superiority
of one's own people.
Third Lack of cultural development of some
races.
Fourth The obtrusiveness and I' of an individual, which brings down n storm of
prejud'ee upon his whole race.
Fifth Successful competition on the pari of an
invading race.
Sixth The emphasis placed upon crimes commit-ted
by immigrants.
Seventh The habit of scenario and fiction writers
of choosing their villains from the lower-clas- s level of
some foreign race.
Eightn Marked differences in color of the skin,
shape of the eyes, nose nnd lips.
Ninth General hearsay nnd gossip. A friendly
racial deed may be told once or a few times, but an un-friendly
deed may be repeated a thousand fines, and
in retelling become exaggerated beyond all recognition.
Since race prejudice is a sentiment, it is an ac-quired
trait, and since it is an acquired trait, it may I be controlled and prevented to a surprising degree, ac-cording
to Professor Bogardus.
I AS DR. GRENFELL SAW IT
H Dr. Grenfell has been chosen the fifth honorary
H knight for life of the Loyal Knights of the Round Table.
H This honor is conferred only upon men who have ren--
H dered distinguished and meritorious service to human- -
H ity. It is worthy of note that there can be but 128 I knights of this order created during all coming years
H corresponding to the number of knights at the Round I Table of King Arthur.
H Now, that being that, we take it for granted that
Sir Willfred T. Grenfell, founder of the Grenfell mis- -
sions in Labrador, is neither "intolerant," "bigoted" I nor a moron. This is what he says in a recent inter--
view at the end of a lecture which took him into many I states : I "Conditions in the United States under prohibition I are far better than those under the licensing system I in Canada. Prohibition in this country is a tremen- - I dous success and nine-tent- hs of the general newspaper I accounts belittling its enforcement are greatly exag- - I gerated and entirely unreliable and valueless for those I who are looking for facts." I Dr. Grenfell emphasized the preponderance of sen--
timent in favor of prohibition which he found during I - his travels in this country, and declared any attempt I to modify the dry law by introducing the licensing sys-- I
tern would be a "backward step." I "I saw more intoxication and more of the ill re- - I suits of intoxication during the short time I was in I Winnipeg, Montreal, and Toronto recently, than I have I seen in this country in six months. During the past
I ,. two years I have lectured in every state of the Union
nnd I believe that the sentiment for prohibition in this I country is very strong nnd the reports of disregard of I the law are greatly exaggerated. I "In Dallas, Texas, 1 met something like 10,000 su- - I perintendents of public schools nnd the vast majority I of them are strongly in favor of prohibition. I have I seen tens of thousands of American children, especially I in the West, who have never seen liquor used ns n bev- -
erage, and a young generation is growing up thnt won't I want it." I Shall we take the "backward step" by electing a I "wet" president? Never 1
A. N. J.
We take the following from the bulletin of St. I Mark's M. E. Church, Brooklinc, Mass., for Sept. 1G, H
1928: Miss Elsie L. Miller is with us to serve as our H
religious education director for this year. Miss Miller H
is a graduate of the Kansas City National Training H
School, '21, and a senior in Boston University School H
of Religious Education. For two-year- s she served as H
assistant to President D. L. Marsh, when he was pas- - H
tor of a large church in Pittsburgh. She has also had H
a great deal of experience in Trinity M. E. Church, H
Wichita, Kansas, and as a faculty member in Epworth H
League Institutes. We bespeak for Miss Miller your H
most hearty and encouragement. H
PERSONALS I Miss Martha Bebermeyer, '25, is now parish dea-- H
coness for Centenary Church, Salt Lake City, Utah. H
Miss Mary Shoemaker, '21, is the new superin-tende-nt
at the Settlement in Bingham Canyon, Utah. H Rev. D. E. Fields, of Newburg, Mo., visited his H
daughter, Thelma, of our freshman class, not long H
since. H
Rev. II. C. Seidel, superintendent of Sager-Brow- n H Orphanage, Baldwin, La., called at K. C. N. T. S., Oc- - H tober 14. H Mrs. L. L. Laffoon, of Sarcoxie, Mo., has been vis- - H
iting her sister, Miss Grace Hutcheson, of our factulty, "H
for a week. H
Miss Nina B. McCosh, '12, of Guthrie, Okla., called H to see her Training School friends, Oct. 10, on her
way to Wichita. H Miss Phoebe Powell, '28, writes very happily of her
work as assistant superintendent at Eliza Dee Home, jH
Austin, Texas.
Mr. D. H. Lawson, of New York City, made his
daughter, Margaret, very happy Sept. 17 by visiting
her at the Training School.
Miss Iva Tibbetts, '22, has taken up work in Union
Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church in connection
with the Pittsburgh, Pa., Deaconess Home.
Miss Neva Carden, '28, has been appointed to West
Park M. E. Church, Cleveland, Ohio, a new and growing wM
church into which one can wisely put her life, as she JH says. 'HH
Miss Lela Powers, '29, was made happy Oct. 9 by
a short visit from her pastor's wife, Mrs. W. H. Welch,
of Hartley, Iowa, on her way to the National Meeting
in Wichita.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Bowers announce the birth of
Junior, at Miami, Okla., Oct. 3rd. Mrs. Bowers was
with us year before last for one semester, and is
as Helen Whitney. Best wishes ! jjjjH
Officers of the K. C. N. T. S.
Alumnno Association
Prcildent
1928-192- 9
MUi Aletta M. Garretton I Vice-Prciidc- Mi'u Graco ilutcheion
Recording Secretary Mitt Vcrna Wlieat
Corretponding Secretary Mitt Graco Vauto
Treaiurer MIn Minnio Piko
Hittorian Mitt Bertha Cowlet
Editor, K. C. D Mitt Anna Neiderholier
Treat, Special Gift Fund Mii Anna Neiderheiier
Chairman Rending Courto Com.... Mil Edith Wilton
September 12th, in Glendnle, California, Jane
Louise Barrows was united in marriage to Mr. Roland
C. Hillyer. Mrs. Ilillyer will be remembered as Jane
Barrows, '11. The best wishes of her many friends go
with her.
Miss Renn E. Kciser, deaconess from the Settle-
I ment in Kulpmont, Pa., a graduate of Lucy Webb Hayes
I National Training School, made her K. C. N. T. S.
friends
Wichita.
a very happy visit Oct. 15, returning from
Miss C. Blanche Duncan, R.N., '13, made us a
happy little visit the twenty-firs-t. She is at present
at home in Beloit, Kas., having severed her connection
with the hosnilnl in Orancro. Texas, where she served H for three years. H Miss Hettie Mae Parsons, who has been with us H for D. V. B. S. work several different summers, is now H a member of the staff at the Epworth School for Girls, H Webster Groves, Mo., as one of the teachers. She is H greatly enjoying the work.
H We were happy to have a call on Sept. 21 from H Miss Neoma Harris, '27, now deaconess at the Chil- -
H dren's Home in Warrenton, Mo. She was with Rev. C. H G. Holm and eight of the children, returning from the H St. Louis Conference, where they put on a demonstra- -
tion.
H Miss Beth Stewart, "22, sailed Oct. 6th from Se- -
H attle, for Seward, Alaska, where she has been appointed
H nurse in our Jesse Lee Home 'for Esquinio children.
H' Miss Stewart is very happy to again be with the chil- -
H dren in the northland, after completing her nurse train- -
H ing in Bethany Hospital. I Miss Anna Neiderheiser, Miss Eva Rigg, and Miss
H Pearle Tibbetts attended the National Meeting of the
H Woman's Home Missionary Society in Wichita, Kas., I from the beginning. Miss Elizabeth Curry and Mrs.
H Edith Carter, of our faculty, were there from Friday I morning till Monday night. I Miss Dorothy Gahring, '25, has taken up her work I as deaconess for Central Methodist Episcopal Church, I Oskaloosa, Iowa. Miss Frieda Schmickle, '08, who I served this church so faithfully for seven years is tak- - I ing a much needed vacation and expects to be in school I for graduate work at K. C. N. T. S. the second semester. I Rev. Charles S. Cole, D.D., president of the Lucy
Webb Hayes National Training School, Washington, D.
C, visited K. C. N. T. S. the morning of Oct. 12. In
the afternoon Rev. C. Boatman, D.D., president of the I Iowa Bible Training School, Des Moines, Iowa, tarried I with us for a while. Both were on their way to Wich- -
ita, to the National W. H. M. S. Convention.
Ii
Miss Joy Smith, '15, made her K. C. N. T. S. I friends very happy Thursday, Oct. 18, by spending
several hours with them, on her way to the General I Executivo of the W. F. M. S., in Los Angeles. Miss
Smith sails Nov. 23 on the President Pierce, from San
Francisco, returning to her beloved work in Nanking,
China.
Other friends who have registered: I Rev. F. Richnrd, Gladys Sharp, Cenlerview, Mo.; H
George L. Mcars, Parsons, Kas.; Mrs. E. II. Stafford, H
Donald Stafford, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Earl Brooks,
Pratt, Kas.; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McGrew; Mrs. P. W.
Blair, Muncie, Kas.; Wayne White, Lawrence, Kas.; H
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Ward, Pleasant Hill, Mo.; Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. J. Rayl, Joplin, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. F. J. H
Wolfe, Conway Springs, Kas.; Miss Helen Wlllias, loin, H
Kas.; Walter R. Black, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mrs. W. E. M.
Schloeman, Mrs. George P. Southard, Seattle, Wash.; H Mrs. J. C. Holloway, Hutchinson, Kas.; Rev. F. 0. H Hunt, Jasper, Mo.; Mrs. W. N. Hill, Clear Lake, Iowa; H Mrs. A. W. Stout, Newton, Kas.; Mrs. P. W. Bruce, H Topeka, Kas. ; Miss Laura Brown, Billings, Okln. H
Oct. 16 the following W. H. M. S. friends from the H
East, on their way back from the National Meeting, H tarried with us some hours, greatly to our pleasure: H Mrs. W. S. Valmore, Mansfield, Ohio; Mrs. W. W.
Welch, New Philadelphia, Ohio ; Mrs. L. H. Souder, Mrs. H A. C. Brady, Burl'ngton, N. J.; Miss Eda Panz, Bridge- -
ton, N. J.; Mrs. Foss Zartman, Lima, Ohio; Mrs. C. L.
Spaid, Findlay, Ohio; Mrs. H. J. Holcombe, Athens,
Ohio; Mrs. John Ash, Syracuse, N. Y.; Mrs. H. S. Os-bor- n,
Ithaca, N. Y. ; Mrs. M. E. Bowman, Horseheads,
N. Y.; Mrs. J. L. Duckwall. Mrs. Ladru M. Layton,
Springfield, Ohio; Mary E. Kline, Mrs. J. T. Vance,
Ohio; Mrs. J. C. Kelly, Mitchell, Ind.; Mrs. E.
H. Baker, Mrs. M. A. Farr, Indianapolis, Ind.; Mrs. J.
E. W. Bucke, Mrs. J. Howard Ake, Harrisburg, Pa.;
Mrs. J. C. McArthur, Altoona, Pa.; Mrs. A. W. Gates,
Barre, Vt.; Mrs. E. Howard Roberts, Wauwatosa, Wis.;
Mrs. Nannie S. Miller, Coshocton, Ohio; Mrs. W. S.
Ennes, Princeton, Ind.
Oct. 8 and 9 it was our privilege to have as guests
a goodly number of our W. H. M. S. friends, enroute to
the National Meeting in Wichita. From the Philadel-phi- a
Conference: Mrs. Seymour Eaton, Lansdowne;
Mrs. K. S. Burnett and Mrs. Sprowles, Frankford; Mrs.
E. J. Rooksby, Oak Lane ; Miss Helen B. Singleton, Me-di- r;
Miss Jessie H. Priest, Rorborough; Miss Hannah
P. Miller, Miss Lelia B. Taylor, Mrs. H. B. Altenderfer,
Philadelphia. From New York City: Mrs. J. Thomas
Arnold, Mrs. M. S. Pressey, Mrs. S. W. Grafflin. Bing-hamto- n,
N. Y.: Mrs. F. J. Scott, Mrs. D. M. Schooley,
Mason City, Iowa: Mrs. L. E. Goodhile, Mrs. E. L. Cur-rie- r;
Laura May Robinson. Oak Park, 111.; Mrs. Carl
S. Hart, New Castle, Pa. ; Mrs. Harold R. Hankey, Tid-iout- e,
Pa. ; Mrs. A. M. Guerin? Morristown, N. J. ; Mrs.
D. D. Renner, Minneapolis, Minn. ; Mrs. F. C. Bowman,
Duluth, Minn.; Mrs. M. G. Shuman, Mrs. C. M. Black-ma- n,
Anne C. Rothausen, St. Paul, Minn.; Mrs. Fred
Dimmitt, Ottumwa, Iowa; Mrs. Fred M. Morris, Mrs.
J. W. Mohan, Mrs. A. V. Greenlee, Mrs. W. G. Morris,
Charleston, W. Va.; Mrs. H. S. Hollingsworth, Oak
Park, 111. ; Mrs. J. C. Haley, Tacoma, Wash. ; Mrs. Rena
Waltz Pierson, Santa Monica, Calif. ; Mrs. Geo. A. Ske-wi- s,
Whittier, Calif.; Mrs. C. P. Colegrove, Pasadena,
Calif. 3